Left: Nick Allen, Class of 2010, who earned a prestigious Equal Justice Fellowship. This page, clockwise, from top left: Diana Singleton, 1998, brought a decade of public interest experience to her current position as director of the Access to Justice Institute; Bette Fleishman, 2010, second recipient of the law school's Leadership for Justice Fellowship; Ada Shen-Jaffe, one of the country’s leading advocates for equal justice, is a Professor from Practice at the law school.
Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services through the Fair Debt Collection Observation Project. Serving as a bridge between academics and action, ATJI coordinates the Legal Writing Collaborative, in which faculty assign first-year law students legal writing problems that are directly connected to the work of organizations, including Northwest Justice Project, Columbia Legal Services, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, National Employment Law Project, Legal Voice, Disability Rights Washington, the ACLU and the law school’s Predatory Lending and Immigration Law Clinics. ATJI works with the Social Justice Coalition and Student Bar Association on social justice initiatives and helps students network with the local and national equal justice community. Examples include the Social Justice Mondays series and the Lawyering in a Diverse World workshops, which aim to give students concrete skills related to inclusion, diversity and cross-difference competence. ATJI also coordinates the Speaker Series for 1Ls, which brings in social justice lawyers, such as legal aid housing lawyers, to share about their practice in the context of first-year courses like Property and Contracts. On the web: www.law.seattleu.edu/Centers_and_Institutes/Access_to_Justice_Institute.xml
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